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Bladder and kidney stones, and their causes and cure, were subjects of great interest to early Royal Society Fellows, as Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme recipient Caroline Curtis explains.

To mark International Women’s Day, we tell the story of the first woman to pay a visit to the Royal Society.

How did Richard Busby, headmaster of Westminster School, influence early Fellows of the Royal Society such as John Locke, Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren? Historian Ray Schrire investigates.

Read more about a donation made to the Royal Society by the family of one of the Society's founding members.

Keith Moore tells the stories of scientists who have fallen foul of the authorities, from Galileo and Samuel Pepys to Holloway Prison inmates Thomas Pelham Dale and Kathleen Lonsdale.

The early Royal Society appears to have been curiously fascinated with bladder-stones; there are numerous reports of unusually large calculi, as they were also known, being shown in meetings.

Rupert Baker is amused by a satirical take on Samuel Pepys and the publication history of a book which drained the coffers of the Royal Society.

Felicity Henderson admires Robert Hooke's 'Micrographia' (1665), praised by Samuel Pepys as 'the most ingenious book that ever I read in my life'.

Rupert Baker takes a stroll around London in search of Royal Society connections.

As the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary festivities draw to a close, we’re starting to plan ahead for a library-themed celebration of our own.